Who can afford a UK arts education? As our art, design and architecture courses have become entirely bankrolled by fat fees from European and international students, resourceful educators are trying to find ways to ensure access, diversity and creativity are maintained. But it’s an uphill struggle.

Open-air pavilions and habitable sculptures are popping up everywhere, at festivals, in parks and in motorway underpasses. We talk to the architects and designers who are seizing the opportunities these temporary projects offer for creativity and playfulness.